Restructuring events
European Restructuring Monitor (ERM)
The restructuring events database contains factsheets with data on large-scale restructuring events reported in the principal national media and company websites in each EU Member State. This database was created in 2002.
The bank group Sociéte Générale has announced it will cut up to 420 positions in France by the end of 2017 in the framework of a costs saving programme of €850 million. The measure is to affect the bank’s corporate and investment banking sectors. As in the previous restructuring of 2013, the reorganisation will affect positions within its back office services and its support functions (98 jobs to be cut in the finance department, 59 jobs to be cut in the human resources department, 31 jobs to be cut within the communication department). According to management, who will avoid forced dismissals, the restructuring will not start before the beginning of 2016, after discussion with unions and employees representative. Some roles are being offshored to India.
The workforce of the bank has decreased over the last few years with restructuring announced at a worldwide level in 2012 and 2013 ; and in France, in mid 2013 and end of 2013. Société Générale employs 148,300 people worldwide.
Eurofound (2015), Société Générale, Internal restructuring in France, factsheet number 86023, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/86023.
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